Classroom Ideas

This clip is useful to exemplify some of the many language devices used in poetry such as personification like 'Stormman'; alliteration like 'flapping fling'; similes like 'size like King Kong' and metaphor ' …mad werewolf' and powerful verbs '…battering'. Discuss the effect of these and ask children to apply them in their own poems about natural phenomena such as earthquakes or volcanoes.